These Are The Cars You Are Sick Of Seeing At The Car Show

Basically any new cars. You Corvette fresh off the dealer lot is not special. If we want to see one we can go to the dealership ourselves or just wait to see one rolling down the road. I remember when the HHR and Prowler first came out and some people actually entered them into car shows. It was pretty lame to say the least.

Other than that, I’m not going to yuck someone else’s yum, no matter how much I may dislike it personally. I wouldn’t want them to do the same to me.

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Late-model Corvettes. They also shouldn’t be in 4th of July parades.

From Thomas Hajicek, 17 Seconds

I have a long list of cars I don’t want to see any more at car shows, but top of the list is the first generation Mustang:

There are usually a half-dozen or more at any given show, and I’m sorry, but I just don’t find them special anymore.

And just because you wrote a $30,000 check for a Mustang that was restored by someone else, doesn’t make you a ‘car guy.’

From Earthbound Misfit I

I Stopped going to car shows years ago. Its not just the model of vehicle but the fact that MOST people who restore them have ZERO good taste. I absolutely hate all of those “hot rods” that have been painted some awful, garish color like purple, fluorescent orange or whatever with cheesy chrome rims.
 
Maybe some will give me flak on this but for me I also don’t like to see what boils down to an over the top restoration where under the hood looks nothing like it did from the factory with mirror-finish paint, all chrome plated engine parts and so on.

And yeah... the shit tons of Belairs, Mustangs, Corvettes, Camaros, and other super common cars that show up at these things. That and most of the people who own these are usually raging assholes who probably will vote for Trump, watch Fox news, and are your typically unremarkable, un-interesting, un-creative, cookie cutter angry old white dude.

From ROBOT TURDS

It’s not so much the car but the placards with specs that I hate seeing. They’re called Boomer Boards and there’s a Facebook group dedicated to making fun of them.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/759790699087796

From snisps

None, because even a cookie-cutter tri-five Chevy is lightyears more interesting than the greyscale jellybean crossovers that make up modern traffic. I even get excited seeing some Boomer driving his rusted out 1978 Cadillac down the road. Even if it’s not my taste, I’m happy to see someone keeping an old car alive.

From Garland - Last Top Comment on Splinter

I can appreciate anyone who has poured some amount of passion into their vehicle, even if that vehicle holds no appeal for me personally. Lowrider? Heck yeah. Old British Roadster? Godspeed. Restomod pony car? Have at it. JDM tuner car? Yes please.

But if you roll up in a bro-dozer with 6+ inches of lift, stretched tires on hideous rims, and obnoxious exhaust you can eff right off. You’re endangering yourself and everyone else on the road, and no one thinks you’re cool except the other guys with the same truck. And you certainly don’t belong at a morning cars and coffee.

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I’d rather see a million Mustangs and Bel-Airs at a show over one BroDozer any day. Hell, I’d rather look at a rusty PT Cruiser with fake wood and curb feelers.

From SantaCruzin6 and FijiST

Resto-mod ‘69 Camaros:Especially when they’re like this example: shod with “wagon wheels”—huge rims where the tires have next to no sidewalls so you can have the pleasure of having your fillings knocked out when you clank-clank-clank-clank take it for a spin.Give the resto-mods a rest and build period-correct Camaros instead. Be a leader, not another sheep.

From the1969DodgeChargerFan

I respect all cars and the enthusiasm the owners bring to the hobby, no matter what car they bring to the show.

Except Dodge Challengers. Fuck Challengers.

From Stubb0632722

Every Euro car show. I used this photo because it looked the most accurate.

From cdydatzigs

Late model Jeep Wranglers with lifts, neon headlights, and other gaudy accessories that will only be used for mall-crawling. Sometimes you will see a dozen of Jeeps these lined up at Cars and Coffee.

From golfball

I was getting really tired of all the kids that would show up in Volkswagen Golf R’s at every show. It was getting to the point that they pretty much had their own section. Congratulations, for some reason you spent $50k on a Golf and then followed the herd and “individualized” it with cheap fartcan exhaust and do-it-yourself window tints with more bubbles than a case of Zima or White Claw or whatever it is the young people are drinking nowadays.

But then I remember to check my GenX cynicism and appreciate that at least there are young people finally getting into a hobby that was starting to look like it was on the way out.

From TRath

I see a lot of comments dogging on Corvettes (& their owners) here.

And prior to having kids, Corvette would have been my answer, too (that, or every 2005+ Mopar). They’re every-damn-where here in the US south. And you can’t go to a cars & coffee without tripping over half a dozen “1 of 15" boomer boards sitting in front of over-polished, under-driven, swirl-marked, mundane-ass, rental-spec C7s and C8s.

However, for some strange and inexplicable reason, my kids (both under 10) absolutely love Corvettes. All of them. From the depth of malaisey-awfulness that was the post-refresh C3, to the (IMO) pinnacle of Corvette-ness, the C6 Z06.

Seeing a Corvette is an event for them. They’ll yell and point and get excited. All the while I’m wondering to myself “what am I doing wrong as a parent?”

But then I recalled a time when I was about their age that, for some strange and inexplicable reason, I was a 3rd gen Camaro fanatic. The walls of my room were a shrine to all things 3rd gen Camaro, and I absolutely loved them. All of them. From the lowliest, poverty-cap wearing Iron Duke-powered base model, to the most IROC’d IROC that ever T-topped.

Seeing a 3rd gen Camaro was an event for me. I’d yell and point and get excited. All the while, my dad - a Mustang guy since the 60's - must have wondered the same thing I do when my kids freak out over a Corvette.

So now, when I turn the corner into my local Krispy Kreme parking lot on a Saturday morning and gaze upon the acres of fiberglass and other people’s poor choices, I’m not filled with the existential dread I once was. Instead, I look forward to my kids getting genuinely excited about cars. Even if the cars in question are Corvettes.

Oh uh the question? My answer is none. Each person who brought their car to the show is someone who, at least briefly, wanted to bring joy to others through their shared automotive enthusiasm.

Except Mustang owners. Screw those guys. (I say this as an S550 Mustang GT owner).

From OldManMcKenna

Cars that don’t fit the theme. I recently attended a show where the theme was vintage transport with the backdrop of historic trains. As such, the event was open to anything 21 years old or older. It was great! I saw vintage Mack trucks, a Routemaster bus, some sweet Studebakers, even an air-cooled VW I’ve never seen before. There was even a mint condition late-1990s Chevy Monte Carlo, heck yeah!

I was in the import section with the only JDM import, my 1989 Suzuki Every, which was parked next to a Ferrari F355 and a ‘90s Audi S6. But then I realized that the museum operating the event wasn’t enforcing the year rule.

At the end was a guy who brought a 2011 Subaru WRX, which stuck out like a sore thumb next to a Citroen 2CV. A little bit down the way there was someone with an early 2010s Corvette C6 parked in the classic Buick club section for some reason. Someone else brought a Chevy SS, which was awesome, but not even close to being a classic.

I love looking at all sorts of cars at car shows, even the Tri-Five Chevys. But, if you’re at a themed event you could at least try to fit the theme. I suppose it’s not a super big deal, but it’s just weird, ya know?

From Mercedes Streeter